Last week saw a wealth of stories about the supposed approval of 'creationist' free schools, alongside a claim from GP magazine that schools are opting out of cervical cancer jabs "on the grounds of religion".

Both of these stories were seized on eagerly, fitting comfortably as they do...

It's not been a good week for clear thinking on the role of religion in public life. In the US, where the First Amendment of the constitution demands a complete separation of church and state, a Judge has ruled that churches must stop meeting in school buildings because "a worship...

There's been a lot of talk about the importance of faith from coalition politicians recently. Where Labour famously refused to 'do God', at least in speaking about it, the prime minister has been happy to extol the virtues of the King James Bible, and Michael Gove proposing that a copy...